In the midst of the raging Palisades Fire, Hollywood celebrities have taken to social media to express their frustration with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s handling of the emergency. The fire, fueled by relentless Santa Ana winds, erupted in the Santa Monica Mountains and rapidly spread, consuming nearly 3,000 acres by nightfall.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was among the first to voice her discontent, highlighting the irony of evacuation orders amidst gridlocked traffic without any traffic control. “City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping,” Gellar posted on her Instagram story, directly tagging the city’s and mayor’s official accounts.
This sentiment was echoed by other celebrities like Jillian Michaels and former “Dancing with the Stars” dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy, who criticized the city’s preparedness and response. Chmerkovskiy pointed out the dire situation, stating, “5th largest economy on the planet. Firefighters didn’t have enough water pressure to do their jobs?!”
The fire’s impact was severe, with mandatory evacuations leading to scenes of abandoned cars on roads, further complicating the escape for residents. Actor Steve Guttenberg took matters into his own hands, helping move stranded vehicles to clear paths for emergency services, describing the scene as “a ghost town.”
James Woods, who lost his home in the fire, went beyond criticism to blame the disaster on what he described as political mismanagement by state and local leaders. He posted on X, “This isn’t climate change, this is due to liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs.”
The community’s response has been one of shock and frustration, with celebrities like Chris Pratt calling for prayers for the firefighters and those unable to evacuate. The situation has spotlighted not only the immediate crisis but also broader issues about emergency preparedness and leadership in one of America’s largest cities.
The Palisades Fire underscores a critical moment for Los Angeles, where public and celebrity voices alike are demanding better from their elected officials in times of crisis.
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Did you vote for that radical mayor? Most likely, yes you did. No sympathy for you.
amen
Just like the people in Gaza, Californians got the government they asked for….
the results? they a commiserate with their choices.
Typical of Hollyweird. Don’t care about what happens to anyone till it impacts them. Its DEI to DIE for.
My sympathy goes to those who day in, day out, go out and punch the clock to put food on the table for their families.
Agenda2030 map of restricted use zones is why they don’t care about humans or human rights. Even Hollywood are numbers of human dwellings to be discarded.
This used to be agenda 2050, but Obama reduced and sped up the timetable, so now Deagle projections are the new norm for depopulation to make way for wildlife exclusion zones. People are the last thing they care about now.
The day after the catastrophic LA fires started burning through her city, the mayor of Las Angeles, Karen Bass, arrived back to the scene of her crimes from a junket in Africa and was cornered getting off her plane when she was confronted with questions from a reporter about her prior official actions in preparations for the fires everyone knew was a high probability. She responded by effectively taking the 5th refusing to further incriminate herself while staring blankly and mute for the camera. Perhaps she was simultaneously silently having a seance with her stated political hero, Fidel Castro.
Last year, Bass reduced the LA Fire Department budget by $17,600,000, sent “surplus” fire department supplies to Ukraine this month and paid the head fire department DEI flunky $344,000 last
Now look for them to come begging “Red America” for a HUGE bailout as the result of their piss poor policy.
We are bigger fools than they are if we permit our money to rescue them from self-inflicted wounds.
LA mayor must step down she is using taxpayers’ money to on trips overseas and all other courepted spending she should never been elected to office